Feeling in last place racially predicts white endorsement of right-wing extremism.

Evidence

Overview of present research We investigated our research questions using two large representative quotasamples of non-Hispanic white Americans, a measure of perceived racial hierarchy, and statistical techniques that allowed us to measure latent profiles and testtheassociationof thoseprofileswithdifferentbeliefsystems.First,we introduceameasurewhichsimultaneouslyquantifies:(1)theracialeconomic hierarchy, and (2) one’s perceived position in this hierarchy. This measure providessubstantialnuanceinunderstandingexactlyhowpeoplethinkofthe racial economic hierarchy and exactly where they think they stand as an individual within this hierarchy. Next, using Latent Profile Analysis (LPA), we explored the possibility of a “Last Place” subjective status profile which would capturewhite Americanswhofeeltheyarebothfarbehindotherwhite people and close to being passed, or already passed by, People of Color. Critically, we hypothesized that a “Last Place” psychological profile among white Americans would predict endorsement of right-wing extremism. — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 12

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core ‘Last Place’ subjective-status profile: feeling far behind other whites and close to being passed or already passed by People of Color.
• XREF: Connects to the self-catalytic threat loop’s key prediction and to perceived-relative-deprivation literature; also to study designs using latent profile analysis of subjective status. — connects to: Perceived racial last-place status, not objective low status, drives white Americans’ alt-right support. — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 60; Perceived last-place status most strongly predicts alt-right support — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 55; Xenophobia and racial hatred rest on different structures of feeling — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1389 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Perceived racial last-place status, not objective low status, drives white Americans’ alt-right support. #corroborates (0.97) — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 60
• Perceived last-place status most strongly predicts alt-right support #corroborates (0.95) — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 55
• White Americans feel status threatened both by other whites and by racial progress #expands (0.83) — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 11
• Perceived last-place racial status decouples from objective socioeconomic disadvantage. #expands (0.82) — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 59
• Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism. #expands (0.81) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 1
• White anxiety drives demogogic scapegoating across US politics. #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1139
• Racial attitudes comprise a felt group position of superiority, proprietary claim, and perceived threat #expands (0.79) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3361
• Racial attitudes reduce to a felt sense of group position #expands (0.78)
• Racialization recruits deep psychic structures of feeling, not only beliefs #expands (0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1241
• Xenophobia and racial hatred rest on different structures of feeling #qualifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1389
• Ethnic identification, not party affiliation, moderates Whites’ threat response. #qualifies (0.71) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 21